Josef Karl Goedhardt

Vrouwtje Bierman was the daughter of Mozes Bierman and Rosalie de Leeuwe. She was born on 31 January 1911 in Amsterdam and started working as a seamstress. She married Jacob Slösser on 22 January 1931, who was born on 8 May 1903 in Amsterdam as the son of Izaak Slösser and Roosje Frankvoorder. Jacob and Vrouwtje had two children together, namely Isaac on 10 June 1931, and Mozes, who followed on 18…

The only German-style concentration camp that was set up in our country was concentration camp Vught, which was opened in January 1943. The camp had a number of “Aussenkommando’s“ (satellite camps) including Moerdijk. This command was located in the old barracks of the anti-aircraft artillery near the harbour. Fifty S.S. men were appointed as guards and the first prisoners arrived on 26 March 1943…